3. A good ear for muances is absolutely necessary if one wishes to speak a foreign language perfectly.

4. Being impatient is opposed in nature or character with being a good teacher. www.17ky.cn考研人的成功俱乐部

VI. Show the difference in meaning between the seitences in pairs, by explaiming(the relevant part of )each sentence.(4%) 更多考研真题，请光临www.17ky.cn

1.a. Why don’t you try to hire a television set? b. Why don’t you try hiring a television set? www.17ky.cn独家提供

2.a. The shop will let me know when the goods are in stock b. The shop will let me know when the goods will be in stock

3.a. She drinks tea with breakfast, as is customary in England . b. She drinks tea with breakfast, as it is customary in England. 来源：www.17ky.cn

4.a. There was no reason for him to think such a thing. b. There was, for him ,no reason for him thinking such a thing. 一起考研社区真情奉献

VII.Combine each group of sentences to form one compex sentence. you may make any necessary changes in the disposition of material and in the wording, but must mot change the sense of the original. If there are any suggested skeleton structures in brackets, you may use them as possible approaches to the synthesis(8%)

1.The English queue up for public trasport. They do so in an orderly way. Visitors from the continent are surprised at this. They innocently join the front of the queue. They do this when they first arrive in England. Angry glares are given them. They cannot understand this .(Visitors…at the…in which…, and they …when, on first …, they innocently…)

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2.The Pilgrim Fathers were a group of English Puritans, They first spent some years in exile in Holland . They did this to escape religious persecution, they later sailed to America in the Mayflower, They established a colony at Plymiuth in Massachusetts. www.17ky.cn独家资料

3.A man may be pronounced guilty only by twelve of his fellow citivens. They must be left free to make their decision. They must be left to do so without influence from the judge. He may, however, direct them as to points of law . This is the jury system. It is an outstanding characteristic of British judicial procedurd(An outsanding…is …, under which a man…) www.17ky.cn真情奉献

4.No one was watching. The thief first made sure of . His climbed up a drainpipe. He climbed up to a window on the first floor. He succeeded in entering the house through the window. He was not observed.(Having first…, the thief…to a first-floor…, through which…unobserved.) www.17ky.cn考研人的成功俱乐部

VIII. Punctuate the following and capitalize some letters if necessary.(5%) www.17ky.cn社区奉献

1.A lawyer by training when forced by events to be a soldier he proved himself a great soldier

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2.Whatever he had to do he did well naturally

3.For most of my life childhood boyhood and more we lived in the country

4.He wants independence he wants color in his life he dreams of achievements mone of which seems possible in the village his reading and he is an avid reader seems bardly relevant to his actual life. www.17ky.cn会员奉献

5.Manuel Silva the oldest fisherman in Vera Cruz was photographed on the newspapers. 一起考研社区真情奉献

IX. For each of the sentences below., write a new sentence as similar as possible in meaning to the original sentence, but using the word given in capital letters; this word must not be altered in any way.(15%) www.17ky.cn会员奉献

1.I have a strong preference for chidless tenants.

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RATHER

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2.He asked her whether she was agreeable to the change.

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3.He didn’t care about the area, but it was the price that was more significant. www.17ky.cn独家提供

INDIFFERENT

4. She stressed the importance of keeping the family together. www.17ky.cn独家提供

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5.Seven hundred people occupy this tenement buiding.

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6.The community centre is used for many different activities.

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7.Old buildings are sometimes requisitioned by the Council and renovated. www.17ky.cn独家资料

TAKES

8.Motorists are jamming the streets as they slow down to see the wall paintings. 一起考研社区真情奉献

HOLD-UPS

9.The pictures show the frustrations of urban society. 更多考研真题，请光临www.17ky.cn

PORTRAYED

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10.Old communities were broken up and dispersed to the suburbs, the protesters complain.

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DISPERSAL

11.Rehousing drives did not always consider human nature. www.17ky.cn真情奉献

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12.The Council should have appreciated peoples’ real needs.

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13.The authorities discourage pubs. www.17ky.cn考研人的成功俱乐部

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14.The difference between a Swedish housing eatate and a British one is the apparent lack of poverty.

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15.Many people think that half the teenagers on the housing estate are heroin addicts. 更多考研真题，请光临www.17ky.cn

WIDELY

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X. Fill each of the numbered blanks in the following passage with one suitable word.(5%)

Men live in socety not (1)they are men, but because they are animals. The social way
(2)life is a stage in the evolution of life prior (3)the appearance of the human race. (4)is distincitive about man is (5)he has developed social organisation far (6)than any other animal species, so that (7)is a giant step in complexity between the (8)elaborate non-human society and the most elementary society of men. Human society shares characteristice (9)aniaml societies: it is formed by (10)given population of individuals, all (11)to the same species, it shows an interpal as (12)tasks, (13)a hierarchical structure. Individuals interact as (14)of the same species, and possess